CBS News and JFK (The first few hours)
I felt a need to transcribe these you tubes and have tried to do so as accurate as I was able and found quite a bit of unnoticed clergy involvement and/or presence in the JFK Assassination and some other interesting and revealing activities and conversation by others mainly CBS anchormen which I don’t think should be overlooked. I will continue this endeavor over time, but thought I ought to blog this segment for anyone who is interested. There are some strange activities at the CBS News Studio in New York especially in the first few hours of the coverage of the assassination of JFK. My opinions are in blue slant. Black regular print is the spoken news coverage of the various news correspondents. Green print for reference from links on the web. The time codes in blue are for reference of the odd behavior by the news correspondents or those behind them that you may investigate for your self and at your convenience. Brown print is the link to the you-tubes themselves.
JFK’S ASSASSINATION (CBS-TV COVERAGE)
(11+ HOURS OF FOOTAGE)(PART 1) DavidVonPein1
As the World Turns is on the air
10:37/11:00
Here is a bulletin from CBS News. In Dallas Texas three shots were fired at President Kennedy’s Motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting. More details just arrived.
JFK’S ASSASSINATION (CBS-TV COVERAGE)(PART 2)
Here is a bulletin from CBS News. In Dallas Texas three shots were fired at President Kennedy’s Motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting. More details just arrived.
These details about the same as previously. President Kennedy shot today just as his motorcade left downtown Dallas. Mrs. Kennedy jumped up and grabbed Mr. Kennedy. She called Oh no. The motorcade sped on. United Press says that the wounds for President Kennedy perhaps could be fatal. Repeating a bulletin from CBS News. President Kennedy has been shot by a would be assassin in Dallas Texas. Stay tuned to CBS News for further details.
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CBS Bulletin (3:13/10:06)
Here is a bulletin from CBS News. Further details on an assassination attempt against President Kennedy in Dallas Texas. President Kennedy was shot as he drove from Dallas Airport to downtown Dallas. Governor Connally of Texas in the car with him was also shot. It is reported that 3 uh bullets rang out. A Secret Service man has been was heard to shout from the car he’s dead. Whether he referred to President Kennedy or not is not yet known. The President cradled in the arms of his wife Mrs Kennedy was carried to an ambulance and the car rushed to Parkland Hospital outside Dallas. The President was taken to an emergency room in the hospital. Other White House officials were in doubt and the in the corridors of the hospital as to the condition of President Kennedy.
Repeating this Bulletin President Kennedy shot while driving in an open car from the airport in Dallas Texas to downtown Dallas. Recup recounting again the details of this incident. Three shots were heard to ring out as Kennedy and Governor Connally and Mrs Kennedy rode in the back seat of the open car. Immediately a Secret Service man said he saw blood spurt from the Presidents head. He fell into the laps of Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy shouted oh no. Governor Connally was seen to crumple also. The car sped on the motorcade speeded up rushed to Parkland Hospital in Dallas where the Presidents and Governor Connally were rushed to the Emergency Room. A Secret Service man was heard to say he’s dead as the President was lifted from the rear of the White House touring car the famous bubble top from Washington and taken into the hospital. Reporters about 5 car lengths behind the Chief Executive heard what sounded like that three bursts of gunfire. We will keep you advised as more details come in. This incident has taken place only in the last few minutes in Dallas. Stay tuned to CBS News for further details.
As The World Turns in middle of show about a sister named Penny
Ad for Friskies Puppy Food with some poodles
(7:49/10:06)
Here is a bulletin from CBS News. President Kennedy has been the victim of an assassin’s bullets in Dallas Texas. It is not known as yet whether the President survived the attack against him. The incident was this. The President, Mrs. Kennedy and Governor Connally of Texas driving in the President’s famed bubble top car from Dallas Airport to downtown Dallas where the President was scheduled to make a speech. Three bullet shots were heard to ring out. The President slumped into the lap of Mrs. Kennedy. Witnesses said they saw blood streaming from his head. Governor Connally slumped into the bottom of the car. Bullet wounds were seen to be in his chest. The car itself rushed on as Mrs. Kennedy was heard to say Oh no. It took him directly to a nearby hospital the Parkland Hospital where the President and Governor Connally were taken into the Emergency Room and witnesses there refused to comment on whether the President was still alive or not. As the bullets were heard to wing out of the assassin’s gun serv Secret Service men unlimbered their automatic rifles but the damage of course by then had been done. As these details come in let us read a few to you from the press service wires reaching us only now from Dallas. After these three loud bursts of gunshots Dallas motorcycle officers escorting the President quickly leaped from their bikes and raced up a grassy hill. At the top of a hill a man and woman appeared huddled on the ground. In the turmoil it has been impossible so far to determine whether the Secret Service and Dallas Police returned the gunfire that struck down Kennedy and Connally or whether this couple at the top of the hill crouched down their inert forms a as the police rushed them were the would be assassins. Stay tuned for further details from CBS NEWS. END
JFK’S ASSASSINATION (CBS-TV COVERAGE)(PART 3)
We’ll bring you details now. More details on the attempted assassination of President Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy was on her knees we’re told on the floor of the rear seat of the car her head toward the President apparently uh leaning over and trying to converse with him. AP reporter who was with the group said that this man and woman we reported earlier were on a hilltop were seen scrambling to the upper level of a walkway overlooking an underpass the at which the car was approaching. Lawrence O’Brian the Presidential aide says he has no information on whether the President is still alive. Mrs. Kennedy was weeping trying to hold up her hus husbands head when the reporters reached the car as it dashed toward the hospital. Vice President Lyndon Johnson was in the car behind the President. There was no immediate sign that he was hurt. Repeating that no indication Vice President Johnson was hurt. In fact there was no evidence at all at what might have happened to Johnson since only the President’s car and its Secret Service follow-up car went on to the hospital.(PAUSE)
Let us recount this incident again. There has been an assassination attempt against the life of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas Texas. The President Mrs. Kennedy and Governor Connally of Texas on route from the Dallas Airport to a speech the President was scheduled to make at noon in Dallas were in the President’s famed bubble top car driving through cheering crowds in the streets of Dallas when three shots rang out. The President slumped into the lap of Mrs. Kennedy apparently a bullet wound in his head. Governor Connally slumped to the floor of the car. Bullet wounds were seen in his chest. The Mrs. Kennedy screamed out Oh No. The car stopped momentarily. Secret Service men unloaded their rifles and started to
(/4:30/10:01/ seems to be missing a word possibly edited out?)
into the crowd. Two uh persons a man and a woman were seen crouched with a crowd around them on a hilltop overlooking the road. Whether they were concerned in the shooting or not we do not know yet. Secret Service men rushed to that scene and were awaiting a report on that. Vice President Johnson was in the car immediately following President Kennedy and Governor Connally. He was not hurt as far as we are able to determine. The President and Governor Connally were rushed to a nearby hospital Parkland Hospital where they were taken into the Emergency Room and we have no information yet as to how serious the injuries were. However aides very close to President Kennedy ha would have no comments when they were asked by reporters the seriousness of the President’s injuries.
Late information just in. Acting White House Secretary Malcom Killdoff was asked whether the President was dead and he said I have no word now. The Presidents had landed just a short time before as we said at Dallas Love Field. He was driving to the Trade Mart in Dallas to deliver this luncheon speech which was to be sponsored by three Dallas organizations. The largest turnout of the current Texas Tour was on the streets to greet Kennedy. He was being greeted lavishly by the crowd in a very warm Texas welcome when the
(voice goes into distress
at 5:52/10:01-5:54/10:01
or 3:40/10:20 depending
on which version of this you tube that the internet directs you to-
which is interesting in itself_
Sounds re-edited)
bullet woun b b bullet uh
(resumes normal speech 3:43)
fired out of the crowd. Stay tuned we’ll bring you the details just as quickly as they come in.
(After the distressed voice above the propaganda begins! Up to now the bulletins were reports without opinion type additions in my opinion there seems to have been a take over of this reporter)
It might be recalled that Dallas has been a hot bed of criticism of President Kennedy and his administration by outspoken rightist groups. Only two weeks ago uh Ambassador Adelai Stevenson of the United Nations was in an incident in Dallas when he was besieged by pickets, far right-wing pickets outside of a speech he made there and he was struck in the head by a picket sign by an outraged conservative who felt we should not be in the United Nations. Even today through Dallas there were cars touring the streets with signs US or UN.
“Even today”
is often the beginning of many of President Kennedy’s speeches which were written
by his speech writers!
A little late information Rear Admiral George Berkley Unites States Navy the White House Physician rushed into that Parkland Hospital in Dallas. He headed for the Emergency Room where the President and Governor Connally were taken. Still awaiting word as to the condition of the President from that Emergency Room.(PAUSE)
Governor Connally of Texas is the young Governor who managed the campaigns of Lyndon Johnson over the uh last several Senatorial and Vice Presidital Presidential campaigns of Johnsons. He is a leader of what is considered the more conservative wing of the Democratic Party in Texas. Part of the reason for President Kennedy’s being in Texas was said was to try to patch up differences between the conservative and liberal wings of the Democratic Party which uh it was believed endangered the chances of the administration uh taking Texas in the 1964 election.
Lets recount again that President Kennedy and Governor Connally of Texas lie in the Emergency Room at Parkland Hospital in Dallas as an anxious world waits to learn how serious are the injuries that they suffered from an assassin bullets. President Kennedy has been injured apparently in the head, Gov. Connally of Texas in the chest.Three bullet shots were heard to ring out as the President’s car drove through the crowded streets of Dallas on the outskirts from the airport toward downtown.
Further details now as we are have learned that the motorcade uh was so strung out as a result of the speedy Secret Service departure from the scene of the shooting that members of the Kennedy staff were from 15 minutes to a half hour behind in reaching the hospital. (at least a half hour has passed since the assassination) It was impossible they tell us now under the tension at the hospital to assemble any clear-cut story of the incident because the burst of gunfire of course took only seconds and from there on out confusion. Some of the Secret Service agents thought the gunfire however was from an automatic weapon fired to the right rear of the Chief Executive’s car possibly from a grassy knoll and thats that knoll to which motorcycle policemen uh were seen racing and where the huddled figures of a man and woman were seen on the ground with the crowd surrounding them which suggests of course that perhaps this is where the shots came from. This we do not know as yet positively.(PAUSE – (9:37/10:01)or 7:27/10:20 Lots of background noise)
A late bulletin Representative Albert Thomas the Democrat from Houston Texas says that he has been informed that President Kennedy and Governor Connally of Texas are uh still alive or at least were still alive at the last word he had a few moments ago from Parkland Hospital.
This is the first word we have had definitely from the Emergency Room giving some hope that they survive this assassination attempt. The last assassination attempt against a President of the United States was that attack against President Truman when he was living at Blair House in Washington and Puerto Rican Nationalists charged the Blair House Steps, attempted to enter Blair House, if this reporters memory is correct about 1951 that incident took place. They were cut down by Secret Service Agents but a Secret Service man died thwarting that attempt to enter Blair House. The President who uh Truman at the time was only barely aware of what was going on. He as a matter of fact uh watched the incident from the upstairs windows after the shooting took place on Pennsylvania Avenue at Blair House. This incident recalls the incident at which Franklin Delanor Roosevelt was was an intended victim and where Mayor Cermac of Chicago died in an assassination attempt in Florida when President Roosevelt was on a tour of course many years ago.
Recounting the episode again for you. President Kennedy and Governor Connally of Texas were shot as they were driving from Dallas airport into downtown Dallas. Assassins unknown as yet. Their condition unknown. It is believed that President Kennedy was hit in the head, Gov. Connally in the chest.
We’ll be back in ten seconds to allow all our stations to identify themselves and to join the network. END
JFK’S ASSASSINATION (CBS-TV COVERAGE)(PART 4)
This is Walter Cronkite in our newsroom in
0:25/10:22 glitch because Walter does not finish his sentence
Obviously edited to cover up something!
There has been an attempt as perhaps you know now on the life of President Kennedy. He was wounded in an automobile driving from Dallas airport into downtown Dallas along with Governor Connally of Texas. They have been taken to Parkland Hospital there where their condition is as yet unknown. We have not been told their condition at Dallas in the downtown hotel room. A group had been gathered to hear President Kennedy when and was awaiting his arrival.
Let’s switch down there now where Eddie Barker of KRLD is on the air.
Long Pause
We’re trying to get that connection to Dallas now. Just as soon as we uh can get Dallas on the air we you shall see the scene at the hotel where we understand that the audience is just being told about the incident in their city the shooting of President Kennedy and of Governor Connally. A word just in from Congressman Jim Wright of Fort Worth says that he understands that both President Kennedy and Governor Connally while seriously wounded are still alive.
-Okay okay go ahead switch it
Mrs.
3:46/8:09 or 1:45/10:22 Scenes at Trade Mart
The uh safety precautions that were taken here at the Trade Mart uh certainly among some of the most expensive that have ever been taken for uh the visit of anyone to the city and as of this hour uh it of course is all for naught due to the fact that uh there waa an attempt made on the President’s life. There had been earlier speculation that perhaps if there was any trouble it would have uh come at the airport where the President if you were uh watching the television and listening to the radio earlier this morning. uh you heard that he went up to the fence went up to the crowd and uh was a mixing uh quite closely. Distortion He uh shook hands with many supporters
BLEEP of microphone 4:30/8:09 or 2:33/10:22
There was a, there was a uh air an air of congeniality on the part of the crowd. This Trade Mart is approximately a mile and a quarter from the point where the attempted assassination took place. The uh Trade Mart this huge market hall is uh located just to the NorthWest of the downtown business area. The President’s Motorcade had taken him from the airport uh down uh Lemon Avenue one of the familiar thoroughfares here in Dallas to Turtle Creek down past the Democratic uh County Headquarters and on in to the down town area. The uh procession came up Main Street one of the uh three principal thoroughfares in downtown Dallas and is it it was just uh beginning to leave the downtown area and come out here to uh this hall when the attempted assassination took place. The announcement uh was made to the crowd just a few minutes ago as to what uh had transpired. No report on the condition of the President as yet.
Yes Dick.
- There is an unconfirmed report Eddie that the President is in critical condition that Governor Connally has gone to the operating room. This is an unconfirmed report.
That the President is in critical condition and that uh Governor Connally is now in the operating room and also the fact that uh one of the Secret Service Agents who was riding with the President was killed, is that right?
- That that is the report at this moment.
Dick has there uh been any report uh as to whether or not the uh assassin uh was apprehended?
- Nothing on the apprehension as yet we still have that same uh street corner that you mentioned to go by that’s all so far.
Nothing other than the uh fact that at the intersection of Elm and Houston Streets just west of the down town area uh is where the attempted assassination took place. There is a look of uh shock disbelief on this crowd that uh has turned out for the President uh. Safety precautions here probably have never been greater. It was only a couple of weeks ago that an incident occurred here that uh caused some to think that it would have been better had President Kennedy not gone ahead with his announced plans of coming to Dallas. That was when the United Nations Ambassador Adelai Stevenson made a uh speech at the uh Memorial Theater in Dallas. You may recall that at that time there was quite a rhubarb inside the uh theater proper as Mr. Stevenson tried to speak. One man a Frank McGeHee who is the leader of the National Indignation Convention a group of extreme rightists here tried to interrupt the uh ambassador. Uh he was ejected from the Hall then later when Mr. Stevenson left the Hall and tried to uh go to his car he stepped away from his uh police protection for a minute and into the arms of a very hostile crowd. A uh woman hit him with a placard and he was also spat upon by a 23 year old Dallasite. This uh caused of course the fact that uh the precautions for the Presidential visit went to extremes that had not been known here before. Uh the report is that the attempted assassins we now hear it was a man and a woman who uh fired the shots were on the ledge of a building near the Houston Street Underpass. Uh just from memory that would p
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That was a report from Eddie Barker at our affiliate KRLD in Dallas Texas. The scene you saw was the luncheon to which uh President Kennedy was on route. He was planning to address that luncheon when one of his strongest statements yet against uh those who as he said would return uh this uh turn this the clock back uh but he did not get an opportunity to make that speech. He was cut down by bullets as his motorcade approached downtown Dallas.
The above statement is very important.
He is now in the Emergency Room of Parkland Hospital in Dallas. He is remaining in the Emergency Room because uh Secret Service aides say that the facilities there are as good as elsewhere.
They have moved Governor Connally who was also cut down by those bullets uh to the Operating Room at Parkland Hospital. Mrs. uh Kennedy who was in the car with Governor Johnson and uh or uh Governor Connally rather and President Kennedy was not injured but was said to be in a state of shock and is stunned. Uh she had was heard to cry out Oh no as the bullets rang out and the President slumped into her lap with the, it is reported a bullet wound in the head. Governor Connally was shot apparently twice in the uh chest although we do not have details of their injuries. As of ten minutes ago a White House Aide said that the President was uh still alive. The extent of his injury uh the whether it is indeed critical or not uh is not has not been officially confirmed by doctors from Parkland Hospital. Whether the assassin has been caught or not is not known as yet either. The early reports indicate however that a man was arrested by Police and Secret Service Agents. We’re awaiting further details on that.
- Picture of Motorcade Walter just before the….muffled
Thank you Don. This picture has just been transmitted by wire. It is a picture taken just a moment or two before the incident. If you can zoom in with that camera we can get a closer look at this picture. You can see the President in an open car, the uh famed bubble top was not being used today. The President out in the open on a balmy uh Texas day. It had been raining earlier in Fort Worth when he made an appearance there to cheering crowds in a parking lot there. And earlier in the day in this festive day Mrs. Kennedy had made an appearance at a breakfast there too and was wildly cheered.
You see the President here the motorcycle policeman who undoubtedly was deeply involved in this matter before it was all over immediately behind. And right over in here you can perhaps see some of the Secret Service Agents who were undoubtedly involved as well. They were not able to prevent the President from being shot.
Someone interrupts Walter Cronkite 8:56/10:22
We are now going into that Dallas uh luncheon the President had planned to address. Let’s go back. Prayers we understand are underway.
A guy to Walter’s left says:
- Walter were going to get this thing back…(muffled)… there’s an unidentified guy who said he was standing across the street who.garbled.
the film.cuts to the Luncheon at the Trade Mart. 9:17/10:22
Reverend Luther Holcolm in middle of prayer at Trade Mart:
The members of their families…muffled pray that even in this gathering that we may reveal that (calm?garbled) that shall be pleasing to thee and that we shall await the word…from a spirit of ..(garbled). .. .. A //men
That was the Reverend Luther Holcolm who is the Executive Secretary of the Dallas Council of Churches and who was to have uh given the invocation here for the President’s address today.
As you can imagine there are many stories that are coming in now as to the actual condition of the President. One is that he is dead. This cannot be confirmed. Another is that uh Governor Connally is in the operating room. This we have not confirmed.
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JFK’S ASSASSINATION (CBS-TV COVERAGE)(PART 5)
Repeats last paragraph from the last you- tube
As you can imagine there are many stories that are coming in now as to the actual condition of the President. One is that he is dead. This cannot be confirmed. Another is that uh Governor Connally is in the operating room. This we have not confirmed.
Another is and apparently this is correct that one of the Secret Service Agents whose job it was to guard the life of the President was killed uh in his line of duty.
Possibly, that could be Roy Kellerman
who sits in the front passenger side of the limo.
The difference between the two versions od CBS News is the last paragraph about the death of a Secret Service man is cut from part 4 CBS and instead they have ended the tape at the paragraph before!!!!! In the other version it is still included!!!
The Presidents was whisked from the scene of the attempted assassination or assassination depending upon his condition of course at this hour uh ///by bus/// to Parkland Hospital which is located about a mile and a half from uh this site which would make it about 3 miles from the site of the shooting. It is a city county hospital here and uh the President undoubtedly is in the Emergency Room at that hospital which would be on the first floor of uh Parkland. No uh word as yet we are awaiting something more official. It is of course difficult certainly uh to go on scanty reports uh of uh something like this. This is the first time that the life of a President has uh been uh has been uh uh taken or possibly uh taken in some time.
Am I too close?
Of course the uh the uh the time in the House of Representatives when uh the Congress was the uh uh shot up for a while. As my memory serves me I think there have been 3 assassinations in the history of Presidents: uh President uh Lincoln of course President uh Garfield and President McKinnley, the uh three who uh have died by the uh by the hand of an assassin while in office. The crowd now beginning to get up and leave. 5:53/9:28 or 2:07/10:59
Uh most of them of course unsure as we are at this time as to just
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That was Eddie Barker at our affiliate KRLD in Dallas Texas. This is Walter Cronkite back at the CBS News room in New York. We have just been advised from Dallas that blood transfusions are being given to President Kennedy. However 2 priests have been called for and have entered the
cuts away visually from the Trade Mart back to CBS Newsroom.
These are pictures of what is occurring while Walter Cronkite says the following from
(2:30/10:59-2:36/10:59):
Emergency Room at Parkland Hospital where he wrests after the assassination attempt
I believe that Walter Cronkite means wrest….not rest, because obviously President Kennedy was fighting for his life and not resting. I believe Walter Cronkite is giving us clues when he can about what is really occurring and this guy is watching him like a hawk!
Looks like the man casing Walter Cronkite is threatening him behind the scenes as Walter looks up.
which now was about a half hour ago.
The man returns to where he was earlier. 2:45/10:59
Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Connally are stunned but they are at the bedsides of their husbands et
Parkland Hospital as we told you President Kennedy lies in the Emergency Room. Governor Connally of Texas also shot is been taken has been taken to the Operating Room.
When he says et instead of at in the above statement the same man behind turns around very quickly! 2:46/10:59.
And again the man in back reacts and stares down Walter Cronkite when he says ”taken has been taken to the Operating Room.” 2:58/10:59
Who are these men standing in the back ground?
The one with the sunglasses seems to be out of place.
Members of the White House Staff have gathered in the waiting room at Parkland Hospital in the buffed wall hallways there. Their standing around now waiting for the word from the room.
(Walter Cronkite takes his glasses off)
There was a report that a person had been arrested in this assassination attempt and KRLD in Dallas did get an audio tape did an interview that is with a man who said he saw the arrest. Let’s listen to some of that uh interview:
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- story building and as I told you earlier a youngster said that he saw a colored man fire three times from the window of that building. I was in a car in the Presidential caravan about 7 cars behind the President’s car as we made the turn here at the intersection of Elm and Houston. I heard first a loud report. It sounded to me like a giant fire cracker then in quick succession two more. Immediately in front of me I saw people begin to fall on the grass and run for bushes in a park area here. Then Police Officers ran on the scene and there was a wild general search throughout this entire neighborhood, Finally one of the officers found a small colored boy who said that he saw a man fire from about the 4th floor window of the School Book Depository Building. Now a white man only has been escorted from the building. The Fire Department earlier had come upon the scene with gear and there was a room to room search of this building which has 2 , 4, 6, 8., 9 floors.
The building right across the street diagonally from the Dallas County Court House. (Garbled Surprisingly?) the man the officers were looking for or perhaps one of them have been taken from the building but now I see Police Officers running back towards the entrance of the Texas School Book Depository Building and evidently they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the President. This is Jim Underwood in Dallas back to CBS News.
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At 3:52/10:59-3:52/10:59
when the crew cut haired man with sun glasses enters the area three men that were there look away and split the area!
Lots of strange behavior at CBS in New York!
4:44/10:59 Man in background walks behind Walter Cronkite and behind the man who is watching over them with a
white handkerchief in his back pocket but it looks like a white glove with a thumb hanging down.
I wonder if he is hinting at a message?
someone interrupts
-garbled KRLD’s reporting that they have been told by someone in the hospital that the President is dead. Only a rumour, but they have been told that. KRLD is saying.
5:10/10:59-5:21/10:59
Man in the back quickly adjusts/lifts his belt twice with both hands and then with his left hand swipes the front of his pants then returns his hands to his hips
Interesting body language, as if he has succeeded right after the report from KRLD
5:21/10:59
Well, that is a repeat of something reported to you directly a moment ago from KRLD television in Dallas and that is the rumor that has reached them at the hotel that uh the President is dead, totally unconfirmed apparently as yet. However let’s go back to KRLD in Dallas.
Cuts to Trade Mart
- perating room we do not know what his condition is. But the report is that the President is dead. This is not confirmed. This is something that. Okay. This is something that the um/(another interruption from background) Word just came to us a minute ago. The word we have is that President Kennedy is dead. This we do not know for a fact. Well word we have is that he is dead, that he was shot by an assassin at the intersection of Elm and Houston Streets aa just as he was going into the underpass. The word we have is from a doctor on the staff of Parkland Hospital who says that it is true. He was in tears when he told me just a moment ago. This is still not officially confirmed but as I say the source would normally be a good one. President Kennedy on his second visit to Texas. The first time he came here,uh actually the third time. I remember he came here uh when he was a Senator from uh Massachusetts a few years ago and uh I recall uh the time he uh came into the uh airport here and uh there was no one on hand to meet him. He was not as well-known then as he is now and an airlines public relations man took him into town. He was here to address a convention and no one uh was on hand to greet him so the President rode in with a PR man from an airline.
How does he know if no one was there?
The next time he came he was the Standard Bearer of the Democratic Party. That was in 1960. The crowds turned out for him then. This is of course an area where there has been a tremendous amount of dissension in the ranks of the Democratic Party. Uh, it is an area where there has been of course a tremendous amount of feuding on the part of a group that uh considers itself to be THE EXTREME RIGHT WING. As to the visit this time after Adelai Stevenson our Ambassador to the United Nations ran into a problems. He was spat upon by one man, he was uh hit in the head with a placard by a lady. The talk was that the President should not make this trip. However, it was decided that the security precautions were such that he could make it without any problems. And now the word that we have is that the President of the United States is dead. Dead at the the hands of an assassin’s bullet. The word is that it was a 25-year-old man. That he shot from a window in a building that I can best describe as being a factory loft that houses school books near the edge of the downtown Dallas area. It ‘s uh just across the street, caticorner uh from the county jail ironically enough.
Why is that ironic?
The uh shots apparently were fired as the motorcade started to go under the triple underpass. If you uh have been in Dallas you may be familiar with the triple underpass. It’s uh where 3 of the main streets come together at the west end of the business district and there funnel under the uh railroad tracks that uh feed into the union terminal. The uh motorcade was to have gone from there on to uh this Trade Mart where we are now. A Trade Mart that is fast emptying of people. Little clusters crowded around. Uh most of these people uh uh are the civic and business leaders of the community. The uh man who made the announcement a moment ago that the President had been shot wa. Interrupts himself Now here is Luther Holcomb the Dallas Council of Churches uh Executive Secretary uh at the uh podium.
-If all of you will give your attention please
Here is Doctor Holcomb. His microphones have apparently not been turned on. The word that we have is that the President as this is official now and this is the word that has come from.…muffled_ Rev. Holcomb …muffled he gets to the podium. He’s at the podium. He gets an opportunity to uh speak.crowd noise. muffled
It is official the President of the United States has been assassinated in Dallas Texas. He fell victim of an assassin’s bullet just as his motorcade went to go into the underpass just west of the down town area that would lead him to this site that had been prepared for his luncheon. Now to the podium.
…..We do want to commend the spirit has prevailed ……..muffled one with another. As we conclude this meeting………As I have said before we all are stunned, speechless. I do want to ask Dr. William H. Dickenson Jr long time server of God pastor of Highland Park Methodist Church to say just a word and then to pronounce the benediction.
Dr. Holcomb leaves and Dr. William H. Dickenson Jr. comes to the podium.
End
JFK’S ASSASSINATION (CBS-TV COVERAGE)(PART 6)
There are no words to express what we’re feeling. We are all conscience of the fact that we face an issue and some responsibilities as citizens today which we cannot face without the strength and the wisdom and the patience of our God.
Will you bow your heads:
Draw near us o God and sustain us with thy presence and grant unto us wisdom, strength, courage to live in keeping with thy law and to live as free men. Amino
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(Roge?r muffled first name) Dickenson the pastor of one of the uh largest Methodist Congregations in the world. The word was not given to the crowd, but we understand that the President is dead. This we do not have an absolute confirmation on but uh this is the word that we have as we said a few minutes ago, uh he apparently died in the Operating Room at Parkland Hospital which is the City County Emergency Hospital here located about a mile and a half from this building. The President uh and his party have been in Texas now since yesterday. They arrived in San Antonio, then to Houston, then to Fort Worth last night. He walked into a big crowd of some 6 to 8 thousand this morning in a parking lot and down town Fort Worth. The fears here were that had the President had a problem in Dallas it would have been at the airport upon his arrival, but
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breaks away to CBS in New York
That was Eddie Barker at our affiliate KRLD in Dallas Texas speaking from the room where President Kennedy had been scheduled to make an address to 3 Dallas organizations but an assassins’ bullets cut him down on the way to that meeting from the airport.
Here is what happened this morning just an hour ago. It has been one hour since that electrifying flash came over the wires that bullet shots had been heard to ring out in the Kennedy motorcade. President Kennedy arrived at Dallas airport from Fort Worth Texas. It was the third stop on his swing of Texas that began yesterday. A swing that up to then had been wildly greeted by thousands of Texans. He had been given a warm Texas welcome. He arrived at the airport and with Mrs. Kennedy and Governor John Connally of Texas. Climbed into an open limousine to drive through streets crowded with cheering Texans. About 2/3′s of the way to the downtown hotel where he was scheduled to make a speech as his car approached a railroad underpass three shots were heard to ring out. Mrs. Kennedy was heard by reporters nearby to scream Oh no.
I wonder where these reporters were!
The President blood gushing from a wound in the head slumped into her lap. Governor Connally slumped onto the floor of the limousine. It was later determined that he had wounds in the chest. We also have just heard that perhaps Vice President Johnson was wounded in the arm in this incident. He was seen entering the hospital at least holding his arm and has not been seen in the corridors of the hospital with the waiting White House Aides since. At any rate after that shooting incident of course pandemonium broke out. The Secret Service men well-trained in their job immediately began fanning out into the crowd looking for the assassin. A report has it that the man has been arrested. That he was operating from a second floor window oddly enough catecorner from the county jail fired from that window almost down into the limousine like it is said shooting fish in a barrel. The limousine speeded up then and was used under police escort of course to rush the President to a nearby hospital Parkland Hospital. He and Governor Connally were taken into the Emergency Room of the hospital. Shortly afterwards Governor Connally was removed from that room and taken to the Emergen.. to the Operating Room of the hospital. The President left in the Emergency Room because aides said that the facilities there were quite adequate.????
When Walter Cronkite says adequate the man behind Walter Cronkite turns around quickly! 4:56/10:46
The Presidents own physician rushed into the room shortly after that. He was on the tour with the President. Pints of blood have been rushed into the room for transfusion purposes and two priests were called to the room. There is the report in Dallas you heard from our affiliate there Eddie Barker that the President is dead but that has not been confirmed by any other source. And as late as 15 minutes ago it was reported by aides outside in the corridor that he was still alive. The extent of his injuries whether they are indeed critical or not has not known either. It was just an hour ago that the incident took place.
We have just learned howether ever that Father Huber one of the two priests called into the room has administered the last sacrament of the church to President Kennedy. Regarding the probable assassin the sheriff’s officers have taken a young man into custody at the scene. A man 25 years old we are r
(interrupts himself at 6:01/10:46
We just have a report from our correspondent Dan Rather in Dallas that he has confirmed that President Kennedy is dead.
Man in back eagerly awaits confirmation and then quickly turns away!
There is still no official confirmation of this however it’s a report from our correspondent Dan Rather in Dallas Texas.
-Walter muffled
Vice President Lyndon Johnson as we said has not been seen in the corridors of the Parkland Hospital. He was uh said to be by some to perhaps to have been slightly wounded in the arm. He was seen going into the hospital holding his arm at any rate. Mrs. Lyndon Johnson says that the Vice President though we just have this information is fine. Mrs. Lyndon Johnson was taken back into another first floor room where Johnson originally had gone and asked if her husband had been wounded she has replied negatively. Secret Service operators then um took her away and there were no more questions permitted.
5:59/10:46 (again the man behind Walter Cronkite turns his head around immediately as Walter says the word “permitted”)
The Vice President is on the scene if as Dan Rather reports it turns out that President Kennedy has been assassinated is dead from the injuries suffered an hour ago in Dallas Texas. We have no further information on the condition of Governor John Connally of Texas who was shot in the chest by this assassin’s bullets uh he was taken to another room at the hospital and no further information on him so far. Mrs. Kennedy was in the car as we said with President Kennedy. He slumped into her lap and she is said to be bearing up reasonably well stunned but not in a state of shock as yet. She was seen crying in the corridors of the hospital. Bill Stinson an assistant to Governor Connally says he talked to the Governor in the hospital operating room. He says the Governor was shot just below the shoulder-blade in the back (Stuck out tongue) 8:02/10:46 Stinson said he asked Connally how it happened and he said I don’t know I guess from the back. They got the President too. Stinson said that he asked Connally if there is anything he could do and Connally replied Just take care of Nellie for me. Nellie is a uh Governor Connally’s wife. Governor Connally could very well possibly have been shot in the back uh with the assassin’s bullet still coming from the front of the car. He rode in a small jump seat in the center of the back of the specially built Presidential Limousine, specially built for such uh public performances such as this (tongue out again) 8:42/10:46 As a matter of fact the car is so built that the President sits higher than he would in a normal automobile so that the crowd can get a good look at him but as it turned out today so that an assassin can also get a good shot at him.
Further information here: the Catholic Priest who helped perform the last rites Father Huber Dallas said that he did not believe the President was dead at that time. The Priests left the Emergency Operating Room at Parkland Hospital and walked out of the hospital. There has been
someone hands him paper
Just a moment. Uh that information does not bear directly on the condition of President Kennedy. It is come from Kansas City where our affiliate KCMO says that Mrs. Bess Truman has told a KCMO that former President Truman is too upset to comment on todays tragic developments.
As we said there has been no word at all on the official word from the doctors at Parkland Hospital or the White House Staff on the extent of the President’s wounds. Mrs. Kennedy uh is in the hospital as we said so is Mrs. Connally, the Governor’s wife (Walter Cronkite rubs his right eye with his right finger 10:11/10:46) as are indeed most members of the White House Staff. He was carrying a large staff with him on this tour to Texas. It is believed that a gap in the motorcade perhaps saved Vice President Johnson from being a target of the assassin today. The gap had opened up in the motorcade just before the assassin’s bullets rang out. The priest who were with Kennedy wa the two priests who were with Kennedy say that he is dead of his bullet wounds.
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